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Standing sentry in a quiet corner of Sukkat Shalom synagogue in north suburban Wilmette, the cherubim on a pair of historic and artistically significant Holy Ark doors have found a new home. The carved wooden doors, created in 1951 by a renowned sculptor, the late Milton Horn, had their genesis at a synagogue in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. Rabbi Samuel Gordon at Sukkat Shalom said his North Shore synagogue received the doors as a gift from members of the Kol Ami congregation, the second stop on the doors' journey after the closing of their Water Tower Place location. "These Holy Ark doors help maintain the history of the South Shore, Kol Ami and other reform...

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Standing sentry in a quiet corner of Sukkat Shalom synagogue in north suburban Wilmette, the cherubim on a pair of historic and artistically significant Holy Ark doors have found a new home.
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